Two more prominent Trump supporters have been arrested in the early morning hours of the morning, and the FBI says they are aware of the incidents and are working to bring them to justice. Meanwhile, Bill Burr is calling for the release of a man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into a Tesla showroom. And Anonymous is questioning whether or not there is a group called Anonymous.
00:00:24.000This individual apparently threw a Molotov cocktail into a Tesla showroom, which is crazy because I'm not sure we got that initial report.
00:00:32.000Two more prominent Trump supporters were swatted today in the wee hours of the morning, so it certainly seems like, yes, these things are continuing or escalating.
00:00:40.000Kash Patel, director of the FBI, based, issued a statement saying, we're aware and we are going to go after these people full force.
00:00:49.000So I look forward to some real justice in this country.
00:00:52.000It's going to be hard, though, because you've got people like Bill Burr calling for more violence, or I should say, to be fair, advocating for those who murder.
00:01:04.000When he yelled, free Luigi for a second time.
00:01:06.000And went on, I think it was on The Breakfast Club, where he said if this country was run his way, he'd shut down Fox News, CNN, and ban people from commenting on the internet.
00:01:15.000I get the point he's trying to make, but this dude supports murderers.
00:01:19.000It is insane to the point where this guy is outright supporting murderers and saying people shouldn't be allowed to have speech and discuss these things.
00:01:28.000That's where the typical left tends to fall.
00:01:33.000It's not one of these guys in the street throwing Molotov cocktails.
00:01:35.000He is a prominent mainstream celebrity.
00:01:37.000So when we say things like the left is violent, it's not because we think literally every liberal is violent.
00:01:42.000It's because prominent personalities of liberal persuasion are calling for it, defending or advocating for it while people on the ground do it.
00:01:49.000You don't have that thing on the right.
00:01:51.000We got a couple of the really big stories that are funny.
00:02:18.000CNN had dead air for about a minute because the network is so trashed they didn't realize they were broadcasting for a minute with no sound.
00:02:25.000That one isn't really the biggest story, but it's kind of funny.
00:02:43.000And the fact that liberals think a random video uploaded to TikTok, in fact, is a declaration from a hacker organization to take down global infrastructure, shows exactly the kind of people they are and how much they actually pay attention to the news.
00:02:55.000So we'll talk about all this before we get started, my friends.
00:02:57.000We're going to go to our great sponsor.
00:05:11.000You know, I've had a lot of prominent people in media say of me behind my back, but publicly, so not really, that I have a problem with being too honest.
00:05:24.000So I'm willing to tell you what I think of the businesses of other people in the space, whether it's right, wrong, or how much money they probably make.
00:08:50.000This might be a topic they'll be talking about later, but the guy that's being sent back, I think he's a Palestinian activist and stuff like that.
00:09:47.000I mean, the point is, their messaging sucks, and I don't know if it's that they're trying to placate certain groups or whatever, but it's like, look, you can't...
00:09:57.000Just throw people in jail because they don't like Israel or because they're saying anti-Semitic things.
00:10:02.000You can't throw people in jail because they don't like Tesla.
00:10:06.000If you firebomb a place, for 20 years you can go to jail for actual terrorism.
00:10:13.000So they're doing substantial things that are okay and right, but their messaging about it is just trash.
00:10:20.000They're capitalizing on the fact that for the past 40 years with the Department of Education, we haven't been educating kids.
00:10:26.000So that way, when they do their messaging, it has to be dumbed down to such an extent that nobody actually knows that this is terrorism.
00:10:33.000A lot of it is also is like what headline is going to grab them the biggest headline for a lot of this stuff.
00:10:38.000And typical crime headlines aren't going to grab the same type of attention that stuff related to anti-Semitism and things like that are.
00:12:02.000It's a limit on the federal government.
00:12:04.000That's what the whole Bill of Rights is.
00:12:05.000You know, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment.
00:12:08.000It's all things the government is specifically, specifically prohibited from doing.
00:12:14.000And you could say that given her messaging here, it actually is horrible, given that a lot of people feel that Trump and Elon Musk's connection is too extensive to begin with.
00:12:24.000So framing it as we're coming after you because...
00:12:27.000You're hurting a Tesla dealership rather than the fact that you're just committing crimes in general actually sends the wrong message to the people that are already against you.
00:12:36.000You know, how would the Trump administration do better, right?
00:12:44.000Should she be giving the press release to a more savvy communicator?
00:12:48.000Meaning like influencers to put out through social media?
00:12:52.000Yes, people who can articulate it better than that.
00:12:54.000I mean, most of the time I feel like it comes back to what the headline ends up being for most of this stuff anyways.
00:13:00.000So the hard truth is that when you're in media, you go out of your way a lot of times to find a very, very heavy headline that is then articulated with more nuance in the actual article or the point of discussion.
00:13:14.000And whatever grabs headlines the most, when you're a media company, you're at the whim of needing to make money off of your headlines.
00:13:21.000And sometimes that does a disservice to the actual discussion.
00:13:24.000I don't think that it's her ability to articulate the idea because I think that she's articulating what she wants to – The message that she wants to get across, well, I think that the message that they decided to push forward, to put to the front, is a bad message.
00:13:44.000So somebody should have been there to correct her.
00:13:54.000If you don't love America and you come here and you got a green card and you hate the country and you want to help destroy Western society, beat it.
00:15:35.000But in all seriousness, whatever the message is, the left doesn't care because they know.
00:15:41.000And it's fascinating to me that it's actually the right that doesn't seem to get this.
00:15:46.000My point is, when we were having this debate in the morning on Doge, you have a guy who's like, Elon Musk is a threat to our democracy.
00:15:57.000Because he's going in and they're firing people and it's not allowed.
00:16:01.000And I'm just like, bro, if you really want to play the game of what's a threat to our democracy, the list of what the left did over the past four years is so long that it's almost, almost a CVS receipt.
00:16:22.000And most of the time when you see this stuff come up, they take advantage of the ignorance of the average everyday person who falls under default liberal belief systems where maybe they're not politically inclined, but they've been living in America, which has been, for the most part, becoming increasingly liberal over the last 20 years, or at least it seems that way laid into Obama's terms.
00:16:45.000And they take advantage of the fact that if you ask them right now, who is more likely to commit acts of political violence?
00:16:53.000I think we're headed towards a civil war.
00:17:03.000I wanted to make sure I got the buzzwords in as quickly as possible, because it's 16 minutes and I felt like, you know, a bang was going to burst in my forehead.
00:17:13.000You said like you don't think it matters because they know anyways, right?
00:17:16.000And then that's the type of thing where Mary said on the show today, like we were live, she's like, why are you trying to put logic onto something that has no logic behind it?
00:17:24.000A lot of people in this space, maybe it's because you're constantly putting your ideas out there and you're kind of wrestling with them on air that it's your job in a way to try and bring logic to something that may not have anything to it, but...
00:17:35.000I want you all to imagine a podcast where Phil Labonte...
00:17:39.000He's sitting in a chair, and across from him is a vampire and a zombie.
00:17:44.000And the vampire is going, I'm going to drink people's blood, no matter what.
00:17:48.000And then Phil's like, but you shouldn't do that.
00:19:00.000But what I mean is when I get silly with it is...
00:19:05.000When you're talking to these Democrat personalities that are like, Elon Musk is a threat to our democracy, Trump was found guilty, liable of rape or whatever, it's like, bro, I know you know that's BS. It's like, you know that New York didn't have any evidence and you would never in any other circumstance take a 30-year-old allegation with no evidence and claim it was true.
00:19:56.000And Republicans keep going like, why don't we warn them?
00:20:00.000Bro, if Pam Bondi comes out and she goes, we will use all force necessary in order to defend Tesla dealerships and small businesses, the left...
00:20:16.000So, in Minnesota, where I'm from, I watched businesses get burnt down and then put up signs complaining about getting burned down despite the fact that they were part of the very system for all of the places that ended up causing that to happen.
00:20:30.000One of the things that was happening is graffiti was being done on all of the businesses in Uptown.
00:20:37.000And the city would come in and say, if you don't cover up the graffiti yourself...
00:20:41.000We are going to come in and do it for you, and it's going to cost you $700.
00:21:24.000I want to have a DA or I want this local government to not prosecute crime.
00:21:31.000It's just crazy to me that the more times you go, as many times as you can go through it, that it doesn't cross your mind the next time you go to the ballot box.
00:22:40.000Sheriff Department and State Police arrived at my home a little after 1.30 in this morning.
00:22:44.000They rang the doorbell, started my Wi-Fi, got up, went to the door, saw someone on my front porch, turned the outside lights on and noticed county sheriff deputies and state police locked and loaded.
00:22:52.000A 911 caller with an 869 area code reported that I was holding people hostage at gunpoint in my house and that he had shot, he says, shot and killed his daughter, who's upstairs.
00:23:01.000The weird thing was the 911 caller was still on the line with dispatch providing false information while the cops with the cops as they were talking to me.
00:23:41.000You have got 220,000 followers on X. That's why.
00:23:46.000Kash Patel, FBI director, tweeted this this morning.
00:23:49.000I want to address the alarming rise of swatting incidents targeting media figures.
00:23:53.000The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.
00:24:02.000Weaponizing law enforcement against any American is not only morally reprehensible, but also endangers lives, including those of our officers.
00:25:03.000They could easily, in many ways, get phone numbers, and the worst thing is, it could be AI voices generated from apps, and people are doing it overseas.
00:25:12.000So it is very, very difficult to find out who is doing this.
00:25:16.000I think they will find some of these people, but like I mentioned, The people they arrest aren't actually the core individuals' guidance information for the most part.
00:25:30.000I think that with the wave of videos we've seen on social media, TikTok, X, wherever, not so much X, where these people are just screaming, do it, over and over again, and it is implied everybody following them knows what it means.
00:25:45.000Look, it's one thing when one guy goes online and says, I'm going to or someone should do thing, right?
00:25:52.000The police go and arrest them or the person gets banned.
00:27:12.000So everyone, please take your security seriously.
00:27:16.000Yeah, I mean, everyone should obviously take their security seriously.
00:27:21.000I think that, you know, again, the problem that arises when it comes to this kind of swatting stuff is you're not going to defend yourself against the police.
00:27:40.000The issue is you need to, if you are at high risk, if you are a media personality with a degree of followers, you call the local police department and say, I want to make you guys aware there's a series of swattings that are happening across the country, presumably coming from liberal-aligned individuals that have been calling for murder and death.
00:27:58.000They may call you with false reports regarding me, etc.
00:28:17.000I remember when we had these big terror alerts back in the 2000s.
00:28:21.000Not that I believe the Bush administration.
00:28:23.000But they mentioned that the high alerts were for rural and small towns.
00:28:28.000Because terrorists want to target not big areas, small areas.
00:28:33.000Because they want people, when it comes to terror, when it comes to the left, the reason why during the Summer of Love they went to small towns is because if they stay in big cities, people who live in small towns feel safe.
00:28:45.000They feel like if I get away from the cities, I'll be safe.
00:28:47.000So the far-left extremists explicitly went to small towns, smashed up windows and businesses and things like this.
00:28:52.000I don't know how much of that was just more of emergent outpouring versus organization.
00:29:01.000If you have a small amount of followers relative to other people, they may target you because they want everyone on the right to be terrified.
00:29:08.000Well, yeah, the whole point of terrorism in that respect is you get people to change their behaviors.
00:29:12.000And if somebody says, look, I've got this many thousand followers and I've got this thing to say and something like this happens, they may think twice before posting something at some point.
00:29:20.000And that's a very, very easy way to get somebody to change their behavior, change their habits.
00:30:31.000Yeah, and as soon as he started explaining to us what was going on, I was like, okay, they're upstairs doing a show right now, and this is not real, but what do you even do?
00:30:40.000That was before we had armed security.
00:31:10.000They're not targeting people who are at a large compound with tons of employees who have armed security on the premise.
00:31:16.000All of these people have something in common.
00:31:18.000I was at home in a small town with my wife and kids.
00:31:21.000And again, like I said before, a lot of these people wield incredible influence, but if you target them at home where their loved ones are at risk, it makes people who are doing this for a living think twice about saying what they mean, and that is the definition of terrorism.
00:33:37.000No, no, I'm saying it encourages people if it interrupts the show.
00:33:40.000Yeah, so when you have a private security company, you can't be swatted.
00:33:46.000Because the police work with private security contractors, and they know who they are, and they have direct lines of communication.
00:33:53.000If any one of these guys, like Cat Turd, at his house, had private security contractors, if, like, just put it this way, a lot of these guys are off-duty cops, or retired cops, and they have direct lines to the police.
00:34:07.000They're literally, they go to the same poker games.
00:34:10.000So when someone tries to swat you, they just say, like, you get a phone call and they're like, I'm at this address doing this thing.
00:34:31.000So, like, I understand for podcasts this size, or Cat Turd, or even Mike Engelman there, they have a following.
00:34:40.000For someone like myself, I have a couple thousand people following me, and yes, that could still happen to me.
00:34:46.000So that is a concern when I'm hearing these stories.
00:34:52.000Do I look at different ways to secure myself within my means?
00:34:58.000That's why I'm saying that the first thing you should do is call your local police department and say, hey, I have a small following with the wave of swattings going on.
00:35:08.000You know, what we did was, before, when we were in New Jersey, and before, this is like the early days, this is actually before TimCast IRL. So, this is a fascinating bit of TimCast history.
00:35:20.000Before the launch of Timcast IRL, the Tim Pool Daily Show in the mornings was the 34th biggest podcast in the world.
00:35:27.000It is nowhere near that anymore because when we launched IRL, it sort of everybody moved over.
00:37:59.000And that we've conferred with local police and federal authorities, and we've actually put up all the requisite legal signs and everything, and physical barriers, people would still try and go up to the house.
00:38:09.000And then they would discover a man standing there with a rifle trained on them.
00:38:12.000Shocked to find that when you jump a barricade that says, like, do not enter this property.
00:38:20.000You know, armed security guards will defend themselves.
00:38:23.000People are like, whoa, there's a guy there with a gun!
00:38:25.000And it's like, turn around now and leave.
00:38:26.000So what type of federal resources is Kash Patel going to put into place to even look into stuff like this?
00:38:33.000He says they're committed to working with local law enforcement.
00:38:36.000I'm saying, would that just be him and somebody that he works with overseeing consistent calls to the places that have had these swattings, like to Nick Sorter?
00:38:46.000I mean, I assume he'll have some resources for them, which is, I don't mean to be crass when I say none.
00:38:52.000I imagine what they're going to be able to offer up is interstate data.
00:38:56.000So the swatters probably don't live in the states where the swattings are happening, making it very difficult for local law enforcement.
00:39:01.000With Cash now engaged, he can contact each local department and say...
00:39:06.000We can take this to the federal level and get you the data you need.
00:39:08.000We will fast-track you for interstate law enforcement.
00:39:12.000Oh, you mean the actual case for federal law enforcement in the first place?
00:40:40.000He also proudly talks about how he doesn't know what's going on and how he doesn't pay attention to the news.
00:40:46.000What I don't get is the amount of veterans, people in the armed services that died trying to stop Hitler, and then this guy comes in, you know, and does that.
00:40:59.000While being an immigrant, too, which is kind of fair.
00:41:01.000The whole thing, none of it tracks how you can be the support.
00:41:35.000He did grab his chest, but then his arm went directly to his right side and outward, which is literally not a Nazi salute, nor did he shout out Hitler.
00:41:45.000Bill Burr is a prominent mainstream liberal who has said...
00:41:52.000He believes people should take the lives of wealthy individuals.
00:41:58.000He has praised Luigi Mangione on more than one occasion and called for him to be released.
00:42:04.000We are looking at a prominent mainstream liberal social orthodoxy advocating for violence and murder.
00:42:12.000There was that clip we played last week from Adam Conover's show.
00:42:18.000Where a woman said they polled attendees of the Women's March.
00:42:32.000The left believes violence is justified to achieve whatever goal they have in mind, whether it's to stop Donald Trump, whether it's to stop Elon Musk.
00:42:49.000That's one of the most annoying parts about all this.
00:42:51.000It's funny because that's a trope that's so popular in Hollywood is to talk about stories that discuss the idea of the ends justifying the means, but they really do.
00:43:29.000So I can't speak to Mediaite's readership, but I can extrapolate at least based off a YouTube video and say that that probably means, actually, let me jump over here and see what we got.
00:43:45.000I'd estimate half a million views to potentially one million on this article about Bill Burr.
00:44:27.000Because you can infer what she's going to say next, and I don't want to play that clip.
00:44:32.000So these videos, that video of that woman, that's a random woman.
00:44:37.000Every day, I got somebody here at Timcast posting in our internal chat or sending to me and being like, look at this, and it's some random nobody on TikTok saying to go and engage in this action.
00:46:06.000It's also disconnected because it's not like the guy involved in the Luigi Mangione case was a billionaire.
00:46:15.000He was a millionaire who worked for a billion dollar institution in healthcare, right?
00:46:20.000So between that and the fact that Bill Burr in a lot of cases is probably the most dangerous type for this type too because he is, like Tim said, he is a good communicator.
00:46:30.000He gets his point across in an entertaining way and he gets it across to people who are mentally ill and dysregulated.
00:46:38.000Clearly off her rocker and radicalized.
00:46:40.000Bill Burr is only worth – is worth $20 million and the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was worth $40 million.
00:46:47.000So according to the leftists that say – that would say it's acceptable to kill rich people, Bill Burr is right in that – Well, their logic would be that he was working for a billion-dollar institution that they believe is destroying America.
00:47:01.000Did they ever take down the podcast where he did that?
00:47:33.000Wait, wasn't that something that Vivek was running on for his upcoming?
00:47:37.000They're going to 5150 Bill Burr because of danger to himself and others?
00:47:41.000Well, I mean, the other lady is somebody that also likely needs to be 5150. There's a huge issue with that in this country right now.
00:47:49.000For the past 15 years, all of the power structures, all of the media, everything out there has told Bill Burr what he's saying is perfectly acceptable.
00:48:17.000When he tells jokes, he's got the best way of telling stories in a way that makes you laugh, and that's why he's so good at what he does.
00:48:24.000Then when he starts reading this gobbledygook garbage where he starts advocating for violent death and murder, it's like, bro, it's not funny anymore.
00:48:31.000You're talking in a weird way about people dying, and I don't like it.
00:48:34.000Phil brought up his net worth versus the CEO, or was it the CEO? I believe Bill Burr has half the net worth.
00:48:42.000Okay, so he brought that up, and you'd think that at some point...
00:48:46.000During his speech about Free Luigi, he would consider, like, the second step of thinking, like, well, this guy wasn't a billionaire, or did he just assume that this guy who worked for this company was also a billionaire?
00:48:58.000And the fact that we talk about now that, and this is all over Hollywood, do not...
00:49:30.000He's looking for insurance about that, but at the end of the day, if you're dealing with people that...
00:49:36.000Are willing to kill someone because they perceive them as being the other for being rich?
00:49:43.000Even if most of the people are in some way in on the story and understand that Bill Burr is on their team and stuff, all it takes is one person that isn't read into the theory to be like, oh, well, this guy is also the rich guy.
00:49:58.000He works in an industry that has now capped that list.
00:50:01.000He works in an industry that has now capped that list at billionaire.
00:50:03.000Remember we'd make the joke about Bernie Sanders.
00:50:09.000He stopped saying millionaires as soon as he became one.
00:50:11.000So now every TV show that criticizes rich elites, it actually uses billionaire with a capital B, like I mentioned in the show Paradise.
00:50:18.000They literally call them the billionaires.
00:50:22.000They're working with the billionaires because they're capping it.
00:50:25.000They're capping it at the idea that billionaire is an other.
00:50:28.000It's somebody that you're allowed to other and turn into some type of target because they see them as less than human because they believe that they've harmed them in some way.
00:50:47.000The sad thing also is, like, he ends up being, like, this really, really awesome, layered, sympathetic character, but they make him into such a piece of crap at the beginning at his first interaction with Sterling K. Brown's character.
00:51:36.000Maybe other people have been posting for politicians the whole time, and that's probably the case.
00:51:41.000Media reports Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva decried President Donald Trump's move to cut thousands of jobs at the U.S. Department of Education in a long post on X Thursday, but there was one problem.
00:51:54.000The post from his official ex-account posted at 3.16 p.m.
00:51:56.000Thursday slammed the president's decision, but Grijalva had died in the morning, according to a statement from his family that read, the office of the 7th District of Arizona is saddened to announce the passing of Congressman Raul M. Grijalva.
00:52:43.000Maybe, and if that's the case, I would say it is light mismanagement, but I don't believe that was the case.
00:52:49.000I think there's likely social media interns who have access to the accounts.
00:52:54.000We've seen it time and time again where an individual will, like, Walmart will tweet something like, and the Fed.
00:53:00.000I wish it was actually something more leftist.
00:53:02.000And then you're like, oh, it's the intern who runs the Walmart social media accidentally opened the account.
00:53:07.000I think likely what happened is that...
00:53:09.000Somebody who wasn't privy to his passing in the morning wrote that up and sent it later in the day.
00:53:15.000No, no, I think we got it all wrong here, Tim.
00:53:18.000What this is, is this was a story that was intended for the Babylon Bee, and the headline should have actually been, Elon Musk delivers first batch of Starlink to heaven.
00:53:29.000Somehow, like, there was still random synapses firing in his brain.
00:53:33.000I, you know, I feel like the Babylon Bee can't do it now, but it would have been great if the Babylon Bee had an article where it was like, Democrats' research in necromancy prevails as congressman is able to condemn Trump from beyond grave.
00:54:53.000Wasn't there a thing built into Facebook at one point in time that you could actually have it set up so annually it would post on your birthday?
00:55:13.000They do now because there was actual legal issues behind that a few years back where they actually had to say, family members said, no, this Facebook account needs to be shut down.
00:55:53.000So when we watch movies, and whenever they have a will-reading scene...
00:55:57.000It's like, they all sit down and they're like, to John, I leave one million dollars to marry my Corvette.
00:56:04.000Actually, what probably is going on now, it's like, to my son, I give you my passwords to all of my accounts on my computer and I ask that you delete my browsing history and merge the hard drive.
00:56:16.000You know another one they always do is you'll see somebody put a Glock in someone's face and you'll hear a hammer pull back.
00:57:39.000In all these action movies, you've got the guy going like this, running, and then going like this, or like this.
00:57:46.000Keanu Reeves was actually handling his weapon properly, and you can watch him do it on his Instagram, too.
00:57:51.000There's actually a line in the very first episode of Person of Interest where a guy's holding a gun like that.
00:57:57.000He's like, you know if you shoot that, that's going to eject a casing like right in your face, right?
00:58:01.000But I still want to point out there is still a big flaw in the initial in the first John Wick when he switches from his Glock or from his P30L to his Glock and then suddenly he's a stormtrooper and he can't hit anything.
00:59:04.000The trope is always that in the movies, everybody's behind a car and shooting, and the bad guy stands up into full view so the guy can shoot him.
01:01:28.000I'm not saying this to drag David Pakman personally because he did not post this, but over on the subreddit for David Pakman, David Pakman's followers don't know that Anonymous isn't a group of people.
01:01:40.000They posted anonymous claims 2024 election interference and election fraud.
01:02:16.000Social media wields immense influence, not just in the United States, but across the globe.
01:02:21.000Elon Musk understood this power and exploited it, aligning himself with Donald Trump to manipulate the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
01:02:50.000But the manipulation did not stop there.
01:02:52.000Musk weaponized Twitter's reach to spread misinformation, feeding the public artificial threats and fabricated narratives designed to influence voter decisions.
01:03:00.000This is why social media platforms now find themselves in turmoil.
01:03:04.000Twitter and its leadership directly interfered in democracy, not just in the presidential election, but in elections across the country.
01:03:11.000And yet, other platforms stood by in silence.
01:05:19.000What would happen basically is somebody would make a post on 4chan saying, hey, everyone, we should go do this thing.
01:05:26.000If nobody really cared, the post slowly disappears.
01:05:29.000But every time someone replies to the post, it gets bumped and moves to the top.
01:05:33.000This resulted in online pranks from people who largely didn't pay attention.
01:05:37.000There's one man who saw one of these campaigns.
01:05:40.000It said, download an app called the low, a program at the time, when we say app, low orbit ion cannon, which allows you to engage in what's called the denial of service attack.
01:05:49.000This guy had no idea what any of this meant.
01:07:01.000It is a random person who made a random video and liberals think it's real.
01:07:05.000And what's going to happen is your liberal aunt is going to be like, did you hear that that hacker group said that they have proof Trump stole the election?
01:08:34.000And so they burned all the machines out.
01:08:36.000Telecomics got into a feud with a lot of these hacktivists because Telecomics was doing something called White Fax, where they were spamming all fax machines with information on how to connect to the Internet to share information about what was going on during the Arab Spring.
01:08:55.000David Pakman's users on Reddit are all responding as if that is an actual person who made a video taking actual credit from an actual organization, actually believing the election was stolen, and they're going to spread that around.
01:09:11.000Well, that type of video is extremely powerful to people who are kind of boxed into a specific way of thinking, right?
01:09:18.000So the people who don't pay attention to the news, like I mentioned, they're going to go around now saying Anonymous said this and this and that because they don't know it's not a real thing.
01:09:25.000And the feds really loved the idea because it created a specter during the early 2010s where when they wanted to go after people for CFAA violations, they could wiggle the specter of Anonymous, the hacker group with the Guy Fawkes masks.
01:09:38.000And see, this is all just a bad marketing campaign, to be perfectly honest.
01:10:15.000And what the activists were basically saying is, Scientology is bad, so we should go and protest them, but we have to wear masks because they'll target you and harass your families.
01:10:24.000And then, because it was just basically memes, other people posted other things, and other things got popular.
01:10:31.000One of my favorite anonymous operations was Operation King Cone.
01:10:35.000Now, you may not be familiar with it because nobody went out and caused a ruckus wearing Guy Fawkes masks.
01:10:40.000Let me tell you guys what anonymous really is.
01:11:02.000And for like eight hours, people on 4chan were trying to find ways to get that cone to knock over.
01:11:09.000So the simple version is, all of these people across the country sitting on the internet, bored, We're watching a webcam of Times Square and they were just like, this orange cone needs to tip over somehow.
01:11:23.000After several hours, eventually, I think it was three guys walked past it with their hands in their pockets and then just froze and then walked backwards, turned around, grabbed the cone, flipped it over and started bashing it and stomping on it, waved to the camera and then walked away.
01:11:39.000Shortly after that, three more people walked over with a young woman.
01:11:43.000They picked the cone up, put it in the middle of the sidewalk.
01:11:45.000She pulled a crown out of her purse and put it on top and walked away.
01:14:24.000I'm saying that type of video is the type of showmanship that actually does affect a bunch of people.
01:14:29.000Like you said, somebody's liberal aunt is going to end up showing them this as if they just said something really profound when all it was was smoke and mirrors and theater.
01:14:37.000The reality is that if Anonymous was a group, it's pro-Trump and it got Trump elected.
01:16:42.000Biggest game in 2006. There's the Horde and the Alliance, two different factions, and you can player versus player against them.
01:16:49.000When you're playing as the Alliance, I think it actually works both ways, but I played Alliance.
01:16:56.000If you encounter someone from the Horde, they speak a different language, so you can't communicate with them.
01:17:00.000If they typed in LOL, the fake translator in the game would turn it into K-E-K. What happened is a meme emerged, where young people, millennials, millennial men, Who knew this started responding on social media with Keck instead of LOL. Because we all knew that Keck meant laugh out loud.
01:17:19.000In the game Life is Strange, the first one, the young male character texts the main character Keck on her sidekick at her old mobile phone.
01:17:46.000Member of your Discord, my co-host, Michael Leo, was there for a lot of the Pepe creations.
01:17:52.000So Pepe was originally just some random comic by some guy, and there was a line where he said, Someone took a screenshot of it and used it as a meme to represent...
01:18:04.000When things feel good, Pepe became popular.
01:18:35.000All of these weird coincidences built around this culture at the time, and everyone on 4chan was making memes of Trump as Pepe or various Pepe memes, and that's why people believe they memed Trump into the presidency with meme magic.
01:19:57.000It can only help him, too, because Trump had so much name recognition leading up to his presidency and before that I actually asked the question.
01:20:06.000After that, there is a position that needs to be filled where there's so much of what's going on in politics right now is revolving around Trump and those around him that anybody who's going to succeed him is going to have to build a strong cult of personality around themselves as well.
01:20:27.000Granted, they don't have anybody to offer on the left either.
01:20:30.000Well, yeah, I mean, that could change in four years too.
01:20:31.000But the cult of personality, I think that it is less dependent on that than it is on a successful presidency of Donald Trump.
01:20:40.000If Donald Trump has a successful presidency and the last year, year and a half of Donald Trump's presidency, the American people feel good about their place and where they are in their life and stuff, then I think that it will be likely that J.D. Vance will get into office.
01:20:56.000If they're not happy, then I imagine it would be a tough sell.
01:21:00.000One of the things they said was when Trump gave that interview and he said that they asked, is J.D. Vance your successor?
01:22:10.000Ladies and gentlemen, RFK Jr. is going to eliminate the grass exemption.
01:22:15.000If you don't know what that means, I'll give you the simple version.
01:22:17.000A video was put out where he basically said generally recognized as safe was intended for salt and baking powder so that when companies wanted to include these things, they didn't need to do extensive testing to determine whether or not they were safe because they were generally recognized as safe.
01:22:34.000However, since then, he says, it's turned into a so long as we don't know it causes harm, it is safe.
01:22:40.000That's not what it was intended to be.
01:22:47.000They say that RFK Jr. on Monday directed the Food and Drug Administration to explore potential rulemaking that would revise the grass safe rule, generally recognized as safe, which allows food manufacturers to bypass pre-market review on certain chemicals or additives if they are considered safe among qualified experts.
01:23:06.000Companies have two pathways to achieve grass status.
01:23:09.000While companies can petition the FDA to review an ingredient and grant it grass status, they can also self-affirm that their products are safe based on their products.
01:23:17.000The health secretary called out the self-affirmed pathway to regulatory approval, saying manufacturers have exploited a loophole to allow new chemicals into the food supply, often with unknown safety data.
01:23:30.000So, with this major move, West Virginia is currently in limbo on their artificial food dye ban.
01:23:38.000I say this, West Virginia, you've got no choice.
01:23:54.000I mean, I would love to see actual movement on this.
01:23:59.000I think that the garbage that's put into food in the United States is mostly unnecessary.
01:24:08.000I've been to Europe a bunch of times, and they have a bunch of rules on the stuff that can be put into food, and it tastes good, and you don't have the same kind of BMIs in Europe, generally.
01:24:23.000Even fast food in Europe tastes generally healthier.
01:24:26.000McDonald's is better in Europe, usually.
01:24:28.000It's put together and made by someone that doesn't hate your guts.
01:24:30.000What's interesting is that I've heard from a lot of people, when they're eating food in the United States, Even if they're not eating that much, they gain lots of weight.
01:24:40.000And then, we heard this quite a bit, actually, you go to Europe, you eat the exact same things, you lose weight.
01:24:49.000I'm wondering, because I've heard this from a lot of people, they say, outside of the U.S., I'll eat the same food I normally eat, and I'm losing weight, but in the U.S., I gain weight.
01:24:56.000And I'm like, you never measure your portions, right?
01:25:00.000So if you're in Europe, and you order, like, steak frites, How many fries do they give you?
01:25:19.000I think American portion sizes are ridiculous, and Americans don't notice that when you order a burger in the U.S. at a diner, it's this big.
01:25:30.000When you get a sandwich in Europe, it's a lot smaller.
01:25:35.000I mean, also, depending on where you're living there, it's not just the ingredients.
01:25:38.000They live in cities where they're walking rather than driving a lot of the time.
01:25:42.000So there's drastic lifestyle changes that make a huge difference there as well.
01:25:47.000Yeah, I mean, I think it's true, but I also think things like the corn syrup subsidies and the amount of corn syrup and sugar that's in food in America.
01:29:33.000I would like to give a heartfelt thank you to all of the people who ate mushrooms before me and died so that I know which ones are safe to eat.
01:30:52.000There are circumstances where if you know the math or have a general understanding of the stuff, you can apply it rather quickly as opposed to trying to look it up right away.
01:31:04.000I would rather know how to play a song than be like, I can probably play it, let me look up the music.
01:31:09.000In a circumstance where someone hands me a guitar and says play a song, give me a second, let me grab my phone, I'm going to look up a song.
01:31:14.000That's fine, but it's not a life or death situation.
01:31:17.000Or I can just be like, I know how to play a song, I can just play it.
01:31:19.000In what I do, data analytics, I do a lot of math.
01:31:25.000I've just found it's easier, more often than not, to code in my math solutions so that way I don't have to remember how to do it every time.
01:31:55.000So the most important years of a child's life are zero through five.
01:32:00.000That is where the neurons are developing and the brain is adapting.
01:32:04.000So you've heard of people who are tone deaf.
01:32:07.000This is because they weren't exposed to music and didn't have a practice or understanding of it in formative years.
01:32:13.000So you get old enough and you're like, my brain does not process this thing.
01:32:17.000A really easy way to understand this as a problem is, If you've ever heard the story of the girl who was, like, locked in a basement for, like, 15 years, when they finally released her, she struggled to speak.
01:32:30.000She could only say certain words and spoke very strangely.
01:32:33.000And there is another story of a girl that lived in the wild and struggled to survive when they found her at, like, 10 or whatever.
01:32:41.000She could only ever say single words, like, eat, eat, me eat.
01:32:46.000She could not, because babies from Zero to Five.
01:32:50.000Their brains are starting to develop to adapt to the world around them, and if you isolate a human from these things, they will not develop it.
01:32:56.000In the United States, what do babies do between the ages of zero and five?
01:33:01.000Well, nowadays, they basically look at an iPad all the time.
01:33:05.000Sure do, and they're seeing psychotic nonsense.
01:33:09.000The younger generation, the babies from today, or I'd say in the past, maybe even 10 years, are going, like...
01:33:25.000Did you see the stories about kids going into kindergarten in the UK and they don't know how to walk upstairs and they don't know how to turn the pages on books?
01:33:34.000Well, they can't read analog clocks anymore.
01:33:36.000Yeah, well, and they were saying, like, people were naive to not realize the damage that COVID was going to do between distance learning and masks to kids in their formative years.
01:33:45.000So, my concern is, Knowing that if you don't expose people to this information or to these abilities, it's going to stunt them.
01:33:58.000You take a look at the millennial generation and you can see its effects.
01:34:02.000You take a look at, you go back to 200 years.
01:34:08.000Kids grew up watching their parents do the work and they were working as children on the family farm and they grew up understanding all these things.
01:34:15.000They didn't necessarily know math or whatever.
01:34:17.000Now we've got kids who do literally nothing from zero through five.
01:35:06.000I'd hypothesize it's because of anthropomorphized animals in Disney and Looney Tunes, and these people at a young age developed an identification with what they were watching on TV. It's like the people that developed the deep hatred for Barney.
01:35:57.000Find that community and say, yep, I agree with this, and I can do it from privacy in my own home, and I don't have to look like a weird guy.
01:36:05.000I mean, not look like a weird guy publicly, you know?
01:36:10.000But the thing is, they don't even worry about that now because so much of it gets put out on social media where it's not just that they're weird.
01:36:16.000They want you to understand it and they want you to be okay with it.
01:36:19.000That's because of the culture of always lifting up and centering the margins and, oh, everything's...
01:37:22.000Bro, Furries have been around for a long time.
01:37:24.000Otherkin was a product of the Tumblr era in the 2000s.
01:37:26.000It's like the guy who said he worked at a grocery store and said he would transform into a wolf on shift and his boss would just have to be like...
01:38:05.000The healthiest I was mentally and physically was at a time when I did not drive, did not have a car, and had to walk to get everywhere because it was a natural way of staying in shape without even thinking of it as exercise on top of skating every day.
01:40:32.000In my work, I do performance management, which means for a work-from-home staff, I get to evaluate all sorts of different metrics and how they carry out their jobs, and I can put a number to anything.
01:40:46.000And I can definitively show you where, if we have a group of associates working from home...
01:40:52.000Compared to a group of people who have to be in the office, I can show you the efficiency differences.
01:41:56.000You go to the lab because you want to do the research you're doing.
01:42:00.000You want to work on the projects you're working on.
01:42:01.000The people who work in office settings, be it insurance, be it creative, they want to work from home because they don't want to do that job.
01:42:09.000And they can say anything they want to me.
01:43:02.000I imagine that a big part of it is understanding the office culture is understanding the people that you work with and developing relationships there, and that's a lot harder to do if you're not there.
01:44:46.000Because where it makes sense, it can make sense.
01:44:49.000There's a ton of times where when All That Remains was writing songs, we would be, we'd have two people talking, like, kind of not listening to each other.
01:44:57.000Our old drummer and guitar player used to do this all the time.
01:44:59.000They would kind of talk past each other, and they would be like, okay, yeah, okay, and they would think they understood what the other person was saying, and they'd go ahead and they'd try the idea or whatever, and it wouldn't actually work out, but someone else like Mike or myself would go, ooh, ooh, ooh, that gives me this idea.
01:45:17.000And so the mess-up sometimes will produce the creative spark for a new idea.
01:45:41.000Connecting Steven Crowder's Mug Club with the TimCast Premium members, connecting those lines, building as many neuron connections as possible.
01:45:49.000When you are working from home, you are not producing the maximum, and you are, conference calls, Are fake.
01:46:15.000It's like the connection is still there, but it would have been, like, anytime we have those experiences, I'm like, this would have been way better if we were all in the same place while we were doing it.
01:46:24.000The Discord basically takes all of the audience members that are interested in becoming active participants in the news.
01:46:31.000They join up, and now there is a central location where, while this is remote, still the point is being made.
01:46:36.000They are now digitally in the same space, talking the whole time.
01:46:40.000And while the show is going on, before the show, after the show, shows like Sienoski's pop-up, Quiet Part Podcast, these things emerge from those networking effects.
01:46:52.000There's a guy right now sitting in his living room, and he's like, I'm never going to get up or do anything.
01:46:57.000I really wish that I could make a comic book.
01:47:01.000I have a ton of great ideas for comic book characters, but I can't draw.
01:47:04.000Sits in his living room, that's the end of it.
01:47:06.000One day he decides to join the TimCast Discord server.
01:48:09.000And I mean this is not as a disrespect to any woman.
01:48:11.000I would not be surprised to find that women are the principal pushers of wanting to work from home and that women generally want to be home more than men.
01:49:20.000It would be great to get Ronnie, but, like, I mean, really, like, they're playing shows that are, like, 15,000, 20,000 people, so he's got a full plate, you know?
01:49:29.000Beef Nasty says, talking about guns in movies, The Town, with Ben Affleck, uses a DSA SA-58 OSW carbine, a gun made by an Illinois company in Lake Barrington.
01:49:39.000Was that, they're fantastic people, was that a component of the movie?
01:49:42.000Was that like, they mentioned that in the film or something?
01:52:58.000It's 59 or 60, and she looks incredible for that age.
01:53:04.000She's 59. We were talking about Gwen Stefani because she's into hot water for reposting a Tucker Carlson interview with Jonathan Rumi recently, and she's 55. No doubt it was that long ago.
01:54:57.000And I imagine sometimes we're going to get some crazy people.
01:55:00.000We do have a lot of crazy people in your Discord, Tim.
01:55:03.000They exist, and they're allowed to be crazy.
01:55:07.000I always say the problem with Twitter, when they were censoring everybody, was that they said, you can't post this thing because it's wrong, or YouTube.
01:55:14.000And I'm like, the problem is, you're basically saying you're not allowed to be stupid.
01:55:19.000Like, if the argument from YouTube is, you're posting misinformation, it's like, you are telling stupid people they aren't allowed to talk about their stupid ideas.
01:55:34.000But you as a human being have a right to express your ideas because it is only the stupidest person who thinks they're smarter than everybody.
01:56:23.000So she needs to do a series where non-magic people develop technology, and of course governments know about it, and they just like airdrop into Hogwarts during the sorting ceremony with guns, start blasting the professors.
01:56:38.000And then they're like casting magic against the guys, these soldiers, these troops, but the magic just bounces off their technology, you see?
01:56:47.000It's led by private military contractors working with governments where he's like, they have people who have magic powers who have teamed up with them to give them advanced tech combined with magic under the ideology that there are people with magic and those without is oppression.
01:57:05.000And the magic people oppress the unmagicked people.
01:57:08.000And then the villain is trying to eliminate magic people from the planet.
01:57:11.000Well, so I read about it in Hogwarts history.
01:57:17.000Technology does not work at Hogwarts the way it would actually work anywhere else.
01:57:21.000And so what happens is, in my storyline, is that several witches and wizards team up with various governments and through research and technology combine modern tech with magic to surpass the protections of Hogwarts to defend themselves against magic.
01:57:38.000Well, because the nature of magic in Harry Potter indicates that there is a logic component to it.
01:57:45.000The energy put into it, to do the Patronus, you must think of something happy and then shite the charm or whatever, and the thing happens, means there is a if-this-then-that to it, meaning it can be researched and exploited.
01:57:57.000The Patronus is actually how we got furries, Tim.
01:58:07.000But the reference the person's making is that in The Legend of Korra, benders are people who can manipulate elements, so some people can do water, fire, air, earth.
01:58:15.000And there's people who think no one should be able to do it because they oppress those who don't.
01:58:20.000They can take jobs that pay more money because they have advantages over other people.
01:58:24.000And so this dude, he can grab their forehead and then take away their abilities.
01:58:27.000But it turns out he had powers the whole time.